Activities & Events

Issues and Challenges Relating to Groundwater Management in the Context of Climate Change

The National Law University Delhi (NLUD) organised a workshop on Issues and Challenges Relating to Groundwater Management in the Context of Climate Change on 21 June 2014 in Dwarka, New Delhi. This workshop was the second workshop of the 2013-2015 partnership project on Climate Change and Groundwater Management: An Indian Law and Society Comparative Study jointly run by the Law, Environment, Development Centre (LEDC), School of Law, SOAS – University of London and the National Law University, Delhi in the context of the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI).

The Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC), SOAS-University of London is organising a one day workshop on Mining, Law and Equity on 19 May 2014 at SOAS.

Mining is at the very centre of the process of development because it is seen as a key driver of economic development while often having disastrous human and/or environmental consequences. It has escaped significant policy attention for a long time because mining often takes place in the remotest areas inhabited by people who are usually the least able to assert their rights legally or politically. In addition, the environmental and/or human consequences may not be immediately visible, necessitating legal frameworks to address long-term consequences.

This workshop will explore a broad set of law, policy and governance issues. It will bring together a mix of researchers, lawyers, campaigners, and professionals from UK, Europe and Asia to take this debate forward.

Groundwater and Climate Change: Comparative and International Law and Policy Dimensions - Lessons for India

The Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC), SOAS-University of London is organising a workshop in the context of the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) project on ‘Climate Change and Groundwater Management: An Indian Law and Society Comparative Study’ jointly run by School of Law, SOAS – University of London and the National Law University, Delhi with the support of the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) on Groundwater and Climate Change: Comparative and International Law and Policy Dimensions - Lessons for India on 24-25 January 2014 at SOAS.

This workshop will bring together experts on climate change law and policy and experts on groundwater law and policy to discuss and debate legal, policy and institutional issues concerning groundwater in the context of climate change. Major issues that will be discussed include international law and policy (for instance, the International Law Commission rules), regional regimes (for instance, the Guarani aquifer) and domestic legal regimes.

Professor Cullet's inaugural lecture on 7 March 2012 at the School of Oriental and African Studies [read more]

Right to Sanitation - Lessons from India

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) with the support of the Law Environment and Development Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London (SOAS) organised a workshop on the Right to Sanitation - Lessons from India in Geneva on 27–28 January 2011.

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) and the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London (SOAS) organised a conference on Water Law Reforms and the Right to Water: Lessons from India in Geneva on
23 – 24 January 2009.

Dr Cullet's presentation at the Discussion Panel - Book Launch on " Whose Rules of the Game? Bioprospecting and Drug Research in Developing Countries" UNU Institute for New Technologies/ International Commission on Trade and Sustainable Development

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC) organised with the support of the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscapes (SAEFL) two side-events on liability and redress at the first Conference of the Parties / Meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in February 2004.

For more information about these side-events, please visit our dedicated website

Liability and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol

The International Environmental Law Research Centre (Kenya) and the Biosafety Interdisciplinary Network (RIBios) of the University of Geneva hosted a Workshop on Liability and Redress under the Cartagena Protocol in Mombasa from 22 to 26 September 2003 with the support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

Keynote presentation and debate with Commerce Minister Weerawit Weeraworarit at "‘A Dialogue on Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy"
Thai-UK IP Law week organised by the British Council, February 2003.

Participation and co-organisation of environmental law research seminars at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2001-2003. [ more info ]

Dr Cullet's expert submission to the Joint Parliamentary Committee of the Indian Parliament on the Patents (Amendment) Bill, September 2001.